3/30/2023 0 Comments Jumping the broom![]() ![]() However, those that are aware debate about whether they should continue the practice to honor their ancestors, or to discard what they consider to be a”archaic” tradition.I personally do not feel the tradition should be discarded, and looked down upon. Not many people within the black community are aware of the American origin of the Jumping the Broom tradition. Other historians believe the practice was enforced to prove to Northern abolitionists that slave owners were kind to their slaves by allowing them to have elaborate wedding celebrations.By the 1830’s and 1840’s, jumping the broom was a tradition that slaves understood as their own. Some pairs jumped over a single broom while other pairs each jumped over their own broom. Some historians believe that slave owners forced slaves to undergo this tradition to mock them. ![]() In contrast to the current practice,sometimes the brooms were held in the air, and other times the broom was held on the ground. Slave owners would take a broom then have two slaves jump over it before they were considered married instead of legally conducting a wedding with an ordained minister. Prior to the civil war, “jumping the broom” was a ceremony where slaves were forced to marry one another by their slave owners. ![]() Jumping The Broom is the first tradition that comes to my mind when I think of aspects of African American culture. The act of jumping over a broom after newlyweds say I do symbolizes sweeping away the old to make way for a new beginning. ![]()
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